Animal Comics: Multispecies Storyworlds in Graphic Narratives

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Animal characters abound in graphic narratives ranging from Krazy Kat and Maus to WE3 and Terra Formars. Exploring these and other multispecies storyworlds presented in words and images, Animal Comics draws together work in comics studies, narrative theory, and cross-disciplinary research on animal environments and human-animal relationships to shed new light on comics and graphic novels in which animal agents play a significant role. At the same time, the volume's international team of contributors show how the distinctive structures and affordances of graphic narratives foreground key questions about trans-species entanglements in a more-than-human world. The writers/artists covered in the book include: Nick Abadzis, Adolpho Avril, Jeffrey Brown, Sue Coe, Matt Dembicki, Olivier Deprez, J. J. Grandville, George Herriman, Adam Hines, William Hogarth, Grant Morrison, Osamu Tezuka, Frank Quitely, Yu Sasuga, Charles M. Schultz, Art Spiegelman, Fiona Staples, Ken'ichi Tachibana, Brian K. Vaughan, and others. Cover Half-title Title Copyright Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: More-Than-Human Worlds in Graphic Storytelling Part I: Animal Agency in the History and Theory of Comics Chapter 1. Lions and Tigers and Fears: A Natural History of the Sequential Animal Chapter 2. The Animalized Character and Style Part II: Species of Difference: Functions of Animal Alterity in Graphic Narratives Chapter 3. The Politics and Poetics of Alterity in Adam Hines’s Duncan the Wonder Dog Chapter 4. The Saga of the Animal as Visual Metaphor for Mixed- Race Identity in Comics Chapter 5. Curly Tails and Flying Dogs: Structures of Affect in Nick Abadzis’s Laika Chapter 6. Invasive Species: Manga’s Insect-Human Worlds Part III: Critical Frameworks for Multispecies Comics Chapter 7. Resituating the Animal Comic: Environmentalist Aesthetics in Matt Dembicki’s XOC: the Journey of a Great White Chapter 8. Interspecies Relationships in Graphic Micronarratives: from Olivier Deprez to Avril-Deprez Chapter 9. Animal Minds in Nonfiction Comics Part IV: Graphic Animality in the Classroom and Beyond Chapter 10. Can We Be Part of the Pride? Reading Animals Through Comics in the Undergraduate Classroom Chapter 11. This Is Home Index